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Am a married man now....
In case anyone still uses Livejournal: Rae Ana and I were married on 17 October. As anyone who would be reading this would know, it was long overdue. -
Wedding date has been set.
A date has been set for the wedding: 10 October 2010. -
Opening a car.
Losing my keys somewhere on the China Lake Naval Reservation, hundreds of miles from both home and my destination, is no fun, but there was a side benefit: I observed for the first time a locksmith at work ( Read more... ) -
Rain
Why does my Internet connection run more slowly when it is raining? -
One more experimental paper...
I can't remember how Koen put it, but I didn't initially think he was referring to my graduation. Something along the lines of "it'll be one more paper", which had me thinking he expected a certain project to produce but one more paper. No, it was about my graduation ( Read more... ) -
Good to be home.
PHX airport, Prescott, Justice, Homer Glen, and Chicago by way of the interstates that replaced Route 66 and a stop in OK city, then Carlsbad, the caverns, and White Sands with a stop in Tulsa, then back to Tucson, then Willcox, then the PHX airport again, then back to Tucson to stay. I'm looking forward to *not* traveling for at least a few weeks -
Someone let T-Rex out of its pen
I just saw frozen goose at Albertsons, which got me to thinking of a visit to the botanical garden at Golden Gate Park a few weeks back.
The geese there move like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. And they're deranged! They'll just waddle up to you, blocking the path, one in front of you and a couple to the sides, and look at you like you're meat ( Read more... ) -
We're missing a word.
There should be a word for the locations plugged or covered by caps, such as the opening at the top of a valve cover or radiator. I want to say "bung" but nobody ever uses that word in that sense. -
Parrots in Justice?
It was a strange sight, and I had to look twice to make sure I wasn't imagining things: a flock of monk parrots landed in the apple tree in my parents' backyard. A chatty bunch, they seem to nibble a bit on the apples and just hang out otherwise ( Read more... ) -
Curse you, Belgians!
Stir-fried "Chinese Broccoli", brown rice, and the Tibet-style beef with cellophane noodles from Beyond the Great Wall: very good. The bottle of Duvel, however, was a mistake. How much alcohol can one sneak into a light-bodied beer?
I'm remembering that Dr Evil was Belgian.